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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1963
Page
1
Mt. Anthony Union School District directors launched a broad public involvement effort for a new union high school. They will mail random district questionnaires, hold public hearings, invite critics to present views, and liaise with member districts to gauge attitudes and guide a continuing planning committee.
The Security Council session was moved up as Israel and Syria exchange accusations of aggression. Israeli Ambassador Comay cited Syrian shelling of two settlements near the border and noted Israel’s first direct complaint in a decade, seeking council satisfaction.
Vermont Public Service Board chair Ernest W. Gibson III said no final timetable exists for resuming freight service on the Rutland Railway main line. Negotiations continue with a purchase of the 140 mile right of way between Burlington and White Creek New York and a lease plan involving Jay Wulfson and Allan Katz.
Isle La Motte aims to build a central water system with half funding from a federal grant. Local officials, led by James S. Wood, explore loans from the Small Business Administration and other federal programs to finance expansion and new wells.
Atty General Robert F. Kennedy presented to Congress a revised Title VI civil rights proposal. It would allow state and local agencies to seek judicial review of federal aid withholding and directs each federal department to enforce nondiscrimination in grants contracts loans and other federal funds programs.
In Hazleton Pennsylvania the drilling of a new escape shaft for three trapped miners progressed at a steady pace. Surface communication with two miners Henry Throne and David Fellin was limited as the drill reached their 14 by 9 foot chamber 331 feet underground. two prior escape attempts had failed, the latest on Thursday.
The House, under strong Democratic control, moves toward final approval of Kennedy’s 4.1 billion foreign aid authorization after Republicans failed to slash the bill. Senate committee work on its own aid measure paused by nuclear test ban hearings, with decisive action delayed weeks. The fiscal year funding bill, led by Rep. Otto Passman, remains to come.
A Page 2 note asks summer vacationers to avoid leaving pets behind. Page 4 discusses a Vermont student editorial about schooling issues. Page 10 reports New England schools increasing focus on teacher education.
Viet Namese armed forces take control of ministries under martial law in President Diem's government. U S Ambassador Lodge visits Buddhist monks in asylum as chaos and strikes unfold. Foreign Minister Mau resigns in protest and seeks to pilgrimage to India.
The Vermont March for Civil Rights fills a bus and schedules a 10 a.m. Tuesday departure from Putnam Square for Washington to support the August 28 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Over 40 Vermonters signed up with a second Burlington Bennington bus planned. NAACP organizers will shuttle additional marchers.
One man, Edward Cleary 74 formerly of Canada and a resident of Vermont Soldiers Home, died in a junked car in a Bennington parking lot after an apparent drinking bout with paint thinner. Edward Fields and Martin Pierce, both of Bennington, were intoxicated and hospitalized. Pierce remained jailed on an intoxication charge.
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